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they have swept across several of the countries in the middle east like egypt, like tunesia, to some extent yemen, now the struggle in syria. there the regimes were regimes which basically lacked legitimacy in the end. >> so monarchyes have legitimacy because of their culture affinity and other things. >> also very often the monarchyes, also the religious authority in the country, not in all the monarchyes but there is this meeting of the ways between religion and secularism, is often finds itself in the monarchy in one. and therefore it is easier for the population to accept the monarchy as a authority whereas the fact that somebody was a general in an army and therefore he took over as a result of a coup, and certainly the fact that he then hands over the reins of power to his son this is something which is not only strange to the western world t is also strange to the region itself. and it could not be sustainedment and we saw that this could not be sustained in egypt and certainly has not been sustained in syria. >> so i would assume that not withstanding it what has happened, yo
they have swept across several of the countries in the middle east like egypt, like tunesia, to some extent yemen, now the struggle in syria. there the regimes were regimes which basically lacked legitimacy in the end. >> so monarchyes have legitimacy because of their culture affinity and other things. >> also very often the monarchyes, also the religious authority in the country, not in all the monarchyes but there is this meeting of the ways between religion and secularism, is...
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and it could not be sustainedment and we saw that this could not be sustained in egypt and certainly has not been sustained in syria. >> so i would assume that not withanding i what has haen, you re belving that the monarchyes will withstand the pressure for change. >> there has to be change. life is never status quo. there are changes. the question is whether monarchyes move with the changes, whether they integrate the kangs in their system of government, and the monarchyes are attuned to the voice of the people in many ways. just a couple of weeks ago the king of saudi arabia has appointed women to its legislative consultive assembly this is se revolutionary. >> the muslim brotherhood an other islamist grups as well as those principles in jordan, do they find common cause? >> well, i think it's notsd for me to speak on their behalf. i am its jordanian ambassador so i suppose i speak on their behalf in terms of -- >> but i'm not their spokesman. i think what his majesty has been saying, and it's very clear s that we are a plura urlist socty. we all have our views. we have much that
and it could not be sustainedment and we saw that this could not be sustained in egypt and certainly has not been sustained in syria. >> so i would assume that not withanding i what has haen, you re belving that the monarchyes will withstand the pressure for change. >> there has to be change. life is never status quo. there are changes. the question is whether monarchyes move with the changes, whether they integrate the kangs in their system of government, and the monarchyes are...
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>> well, you know, egypt,. >> rose: what is happening in libya so far, egypt -- do you know what is going to happen, the extension of it? >> no idea, you have no idea and people that believe assad is on his last legs or the regime, they are hopeful but there is no reason to make that prediction right now. >> rose: you think he will stay in power? >> i hope he doesn't but i wouldn't make a large bet he is still not near at the end of 2013 i wouldn't bet a lot of money on that, he still has allies. >> rose: you are assuming nobody comes in from the outside. >> i think people are coming from the outside but they are doing it in small amounts when the united states says if you attack with chemical weapons that is our red line, i mean if you are assad and not hearing well i guess as i attack with everything else it is okay. >> rose: that's true. what about where the -- >> you go back to the presidential foreign policy debate with romney and bringing up molly and everybody said what is he talking about, that is one thing, give him credit when you can, it is another place where islamic radicals
>> well, you know, egypt,. >> rose: what is happening in libya so far, egypt -- do you know what is going to happen, the extension of it? >> no idea, you have no idea and people that believe assad is on his last legs or the regime, they are hopeful but there is no reason to make that prediction right now. >> rose: you think he will stay in power? >> i hope he doesn't but i wouldn't make a large bet he is still not near at the end of 2013 i wouldn't bet a lot of...
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there's the egypt problem, there's what's going on recently in algeria and so forth. so i think the theme here for president obama is going to have to be i need to smoke the peace pipe domestically in this country with the political opposition and i need to work and develop friendships abroad and develop some overall strategy for dealing with this very dangerous lull. >> rose: just drill down on that temperament for the president who had an overwhelming electoral victory. >> i think franklin roosevelt would have disagreed. he said the election of 1936 was a great landslide and gave him the opportunity to define his opposition during that campaign. he said they're unanimous in their hate for me and i welcome their hatred, the economic royalists. so i think what roosevelt would have said on the other side would have been if you begin to define them before americans reach their own conclusion that can be a big weapon especially for a second term president who is going to encounter these institutional constraints. >> if i may, charlie, in this environment i think that pre
there's the egypt problem, there's what's going on recently in algeria and so forth. so i think the theme here for president obama is going to have to be i need to smoke the peace pipe domestically in this country with the political opposition and i need to work and develop friendships abroad and develop some overall strategy for dealing with this very dangerous lull. >> rose: just drill down on that temperament for the president who had an overwhelming electoral victory. >> i think...
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egypt today, president morse has no interest in seeing the cease-fire in gaza collapse. hamas claimed they had a great achievement. the cease-fire collapses, they lose their achievement. they don't have an interest in it. the egyptians clearly don't want them to have an-- at this point, you have a dialogue between the israelis and egyptians to manage the cause within gaza. maybe you run these two parallel aproaches because it creates an environment where you have a chance to see whether the negotiations between the israelis and the palestinian authority lead somewhere. and maybe that begins to change circumstance but i don't think you can do more than that. >> it does concern me to watch the inaugural address-- as excited i was as a good liberal. i thought it was one of the most liberal inaugural speeches since 1937, the second inaugural of f.d.r., but it was basically a domestic speech. if there's one thing i know about barack obama, having written a biography of him and having some contact with him, the one thing he is cop standpointly asking about when it comes to isr
egypt today, president morse has no interest in seeing the cease-fire in gaza collapse. hamas claimed they had a great achievement. the cease-fire collapses, they lose their achievement. they don't have an interest in it. the egyptians clearly don't want them to have an-- at this point, you have a dialogue between the israelis and egyptians to manage the cause within gaza. maybe you run these two parallel aproaches because it creates an environment where you have a chance to see whether the...